Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction

Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction

by Mary Ellen Hannibal
Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction

Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction

by Mary Ellen Hannibal

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Overview

A science writer, mourning the recent loss of her father, finds solace in citizen science, with its promise to slow and reverse another kind of loss she’s been deeply grappling with—the unprecedented mass extinction of species

Here is a wide-ranging adventure in becoming a citizen scientist by an award-winning writer and environmental thought leader. As Mary Ellen Hannibal wades into tide pools, follows hawks, and scours mountains to collect data on threatened species, she discovers the power of a heroic cast of volunteers—and the makings of what may be our last, best hope in slowing an unprecedented mass extinction.
 
Digging deeply, Hannibal traces today’s tech-enabled citizen science movement to its roots: the centuries-long tradition of amateur observation by writers and naturalists. Prompted by her novelist father’s sudden death, she also examines her own past—and discovers a family legacy of looking closely at the world. With unbending zeal for protecting the planet, she then turns her gaze to the wealth of species left to fight for.
 
Combining original reporting, meticulous research, and memoir in impassioned prose, Citizen Scientist is a literary event, a blueprint for action, and the story of how one woman rescued herself from an odyssey of loss—with a new kind of science.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781615192434
Publisher: The Experiment, LLC
Publication date: 09/06/2016
Pages: 432
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.90(d)

About the Author

Mary Ellen Hannibal’s work has appeared in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, and Elle, among many other outlets.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Change over Time 1

Chapter 1 In Which I Freak Out in the Tide Pool 11

Chapter 2 Moby Ghost 54

Chapter 3 The Wild Garden 97

Chapter 4 Dream Machine 130

Chapter 5 Green Thumb in a Dark Eden 152

Chapter 6 Into the Woods 173

Chapter 7 We All Want to Change the World 187

Chapter 8 First There Is a Mountain 241

Chapter 9 Innocence and Experience 289

Chapter 10 Bee, I'm Expecting You 331

Chapter 11 Eyewitness 357

Epilogue: The River Was There 387

Acknowledgments 393

Notes 396

Select Bibliography 409

Index 415

Reading Group Guide 422

About the Author 424

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